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Its extensive television advertising has featured many high profile individuals, and in the early 1990s one advertisement included Cheryl Cole (then Cheryl Tweedy) as a small child, more than ten years before the beginning of her pop music career.


Ashcroft Technology Academy

ADT College was established in 1991 as a City Technology College, funded by donations from various organisations including ADT Security Services (whose owner at the time was Baron Michael Ashcroft), Unisys, British Gas and Young's (who sponsored the schools "music bunker").

Bawtry gasworks contamination

In 1995 Cedric Brown, the chief executive of British Gas, clashed with Labour Party MP Frank Dobson by refusing to release details of former gas works which may have been contaminated.

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National Grid plc

National Grid Gas plc (formerly Transco) owns and operates the gas transmission network (from terminals to distributors), known as the National Transmission System (NTS), and four distribution networks (from national network to customers): North West of England, East of England (which is split into two areas – East Anglia & East Midlands), West Midlands and London; the distribution networks were former regional divisions of British Gas.

Oluwa Forest Reserve

In 2007, British Gas commissioned the Nigerian Conservation Foundation to report on the feasibility of its proposed protected area in the three reserves.

Ralph Stead

Ralph Edmund Stead (7 January 1917 - 27 September 2000) was Chairman of the Eastern Region of the British Gas Corporation, 1977-81.


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Ballylumford power station

To take advantage of this investment a licence was tendered to provide natural gas to Belfast, a tender which British Gas won through its subsidiary Phoenix Natural Gas.

Direct Energy

In 2000, the company was acquired by Centrica, the UK-based parent of British energy retailer British Gas.

Electricity sector in the United Kingdom

The 6 major companies which dominate the British electricity market ("The Big Six") are: EDF, Centrica (British Gas), E.ON, RWE npower, Scottish Power and Southern & Scottish Energy.

Foster v British Gas plc

British Gas was a nationalised industry at the time (before being privatised under the Gas Act 1986), and she and four other women claimed this was unlawful discrimination on grounds of sex, contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive (then 76/207/EEC, and now recast in 2006/54/EC).

Fundación Impulsar

It was founded in 1999 in Salta in the north west of Argentina, when seven British businesses working in Argentina (including Unilever, British Gas, and Rio Tinto Borax), inspired by the work of the Princes Trust, agreed to fund a similar initiative.

Neath Corporation Tramways

British Gas Traction Company was a subsidiary of Luhrig Company, and obtained the gas engines from Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz of Köln.

Panna-Mukta oilfield

In 2002 British Gas (BG) bought Enron's 30% share of the Panna-Mukta and Tapti fields for $350 million.

Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Transco plc (British Gas come commercial) had sued the council for repairs of £93,681.55 underneath one of its pipes in Brinnington.